As mentioned on p. 26 of IAU Information Bulletin No. 86, the long time Comm 20 member
Boris Garfinkel
is no longer with us.
The IAU GS has called to the attention of all Commission Presidents that it is against the IAU policy to have postal and email addresses of Union members available in downloadable format on our web pages. Accordingly, the lists of Members and Consultants on this page now contain only names and institutes.
Lists of Comm 20 members and consultants including postal and email addresses and phone/fax numbers can be obtained from the Commission President upon request by any of the persons on these lists, on the condition that they are not copied further.
Further to the previous notice, it has also been found out that Comm 20 member
Martinez M. de Pascual
is no longer with us.
The work of establishing the Commission 20 web page has actualized the sad fact that some of our members and consultants have recently passed away. Let us thus honour our deeply missed colleagues. They are:
Vladimir A Izvekov
Luiz E da Silva Machado
Stanley M Milbourn
Nathalie S Samojlowa-Jachontowa
Sergio Vaghi
The most recent news concerned Dr Sergio Vaghi, who is known in Commission 20 for his work on the capture and orbital evolution of comets but who had worked since a long time at ESTEC, The Netherlands, mostly concerning the ESA Hipparcos and SOHO missions. His death, in August 1998, occurred following a cardiac arrest during a motorbike trip.